Tasty Tuesdays

Monster Cookies

Over on "South In Your Mouth" She posted this recipe for Monster cookies a few weeks ago. What intrigued me about this recipe is that it didn't have any flour in it? Shelby and I finally got around to making them.

Shelby loves to bake.

I hand her the items measured and she dumps it into the bowl. Then she mixes it up with the mixer with my hand on top of hers. I put them on the pan and open the oven door and she helps slide them in and then she gets to close the oven door and watch through the glass as they cook. It's a lot of fun. We wait to bake when Reagan takes a nap, so she's not underfoot. I love baking better than cooking.

She was eating her share of chocolate chips.

Finished Product!

They were wonderfully delicious!

And they were "hooge".

"Second Opinion!"

So the recipe makes a "hooge" amount. I had a bowl of batter left from when Shelby and I had baked them on Tuesday so I got up early on Friday to make a dozen or two to take to Harry's Dr.s appointment.

I set them down right in front of Dr. Brooks as we were passing his computer station on our way to an examination room. He grinned and said "Oh No." We went on in and waited maybe 3 minutes and he comes in chewing and said "oh, man, what do you call those cookies" so I told him Monster Cookies! They are big cookies and I guess that's why they are called Monster Cookies, but he loved them! He told us that in the Dr's. lounge at the hospital, they have a stack of peanut butter cookies, oatmeal cookies and chocolate chip cookies and he is famous for taking one of each and smashing them together and making one big sandwich cookie for lunch. He told us that he loves sweets and that he absolutely loved this cookie because it had peanut butter, oatmeal and chocolate chips in it, all of his favorites! I of course was thrilled he loved them and told him that I love to bake and since Harry is a diabetic and I'm a sweet-aholic the only time I seem to bake is for my Sunday School class. He said he'd take any thing he could get! His wife is also a Doctor (eye) and I think that they have a busy schedule. I just love him and his whole staff. They treat us like friends when we go in that office.

Ingredients
6 large eggs
2 1/4 cups brown sugar
2 cups white sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
4 teaspoons baking soda
1 cup butter, softened
3 cups crunchy peanut butter
9 cups oatmeal
1 1/2 cups plain M&M's
1 1/2 cups chocolate chips
Directions
1) In very large bowl, use mixer to combine first seven ingredients--eggs through peanut butter.
2) Add oatmeal, candy, and chocolate chips and mix thoroughly by hand.
3) If dough is too sticky, either refrigerate or add another 1/2 to 1 cup oatmeal.
4) Scoop ice cream size balls of dough onto cookie sheets, with plenty of space in between.
5) Bake at 350° for 13-15 minutes. If using two racks, switch top to bottom and bottom to top about halfway through.